To Hear Me Tell It

Send us Fan Mail Mama and Daddy raised us poor, but we were never broke to speak of.  Yes, there is a fundamental difference between being poor verses being broke.  And part of being raised poor meant "Hand-Me Downs."  Truth be told, I looked forward to getting clothes from bigger and older cousins.  Back then, a part of the Family Reunion was a gathering of Mamas at the car trunks, or a...

Send us Fan Mail Making preparations for the new school year meant many things.  It meant many different things to many people, and some may have regretted it, and some may have looked forward to it.  Whatever the case be, I always looked forward to the trip to Macon GA to buy a new Lunch Box and a new Book Satchel.   Lunch boxes and book satchels were fashionable, and even back then the drive and...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes it takes a ole' friend to open the door to a memory I'd done forgot, and thanks to Mike Posey, I had for the most part forgotten about the 70's soda pop Purple Passion.   But, it wasn't necessarily the taste that delivered the fun and great memories, but the joy and hours of entertainment it brought after being laid in the hot sun for hours, then thro...

Send us Fan Mail One of the many pit-falls of being young is, the lack of life experiences.   Being raised in rural America sheltered from city life and cultures I ain't never seen before.  Having zero guidance and coaching for the first time I ever rented an Apartment or rather a Townhouse.  Hell, I didn't even know what a Townhouse was, much less a what a bagel was. Yes sir, young and...

Send us Fan Mail Call what you may, but I believe God puts us in positions to cross paths with great leaders.  People who have the ability to alter our paths.  To impact us in ways that can change our lives forever.   I'm grateful for the many of folk who truly blessed me in such ways that looking back I now see just how much of an impact and influence they were on me.  Some were family while...

Send us Fan Mail What was Daddy thinking, and what did Mama say?  Yep, for whatever reason and I'm sure that was an intended teaching moment in there, Bob Daniels decides to take me along for the ride to go see the Hippies what was attending the 2nd Annual Atlanta POP Festival, which was actually held in Byron Georgia adjacent to the old Byron Raceway.  The Festival was held 3-6 July 1970.  L...

Send us Fan Mail Do we really fully understand why we celebrate the 4th of July?  Do we know the years of oppression imposed upon the Colonists by Britain?   What had the Colonists endured the years leading up to the drafting and submission of the Declaration of Independence?  Freedom comes at a price, and our youth today has very little idea what it's all about.

Send us Fan Mail Growing up in the South offered many things to keep a young boy busy and supposedly out of trouble.  Back then, we had no electronic stuff to distract us from what God had placed in our reaches to make all the fun and entertainment we needed.  Yes sir, living in the rural South where wild weeds grew in abundance, a young fella had all he needed. Begga-Lice, Buckhorn (popgun), Milk...

Send us Fan Mail Yes, there are indeed only two genders.  I can contest to this, as having been a young boy that experienced that weird awkward stage of life, that of making the physical transition from a boy to a young man.  Lots of thing happen.  Our body begins changing, and some of it we didn't won't, and some of it ain't happening fast enough.  At that age, we're wanting t...

Send us Fan Mail Growing up in Butler GA in the late 60's and throughout the 70's gave me a many of found memories.  And the selection of where to eat, the food, and the ambience that each place gave was just the icing on the cake.  Yes sir, lots of great memories indeed.

Send us Fan Mail The good Lord has blessed me with not developing an addiction to alcohol: however, I honestly had every opportunity to get hooked.  The Lord has blessed me in many ways, and His Grace has saved me on a many occasions and for that I'm grateful.  I have indeed done some really stupid stuff as an young adult, and looking back I see that alcohol was involved in damn near every ev...

Send us Fan Mail Looking back on the many things I've done, I see a great many of the experiences that seemingly carry a common trend.  A trend of that:  "that's not how I envisioned this to end."   I did a lot of stuff resulting in outcomes I never saw coming. On a cold December night in Butler GA, me and my buddies had a plan, and the outcome was to be a photo-op in front of...

Send us Fan Mail Going from a US Navy Enlistedman in Fighters to  a totally different Navy that I was not accustomed to was a major change for me.  Yes sir, the P3 Navy was a completely different branch of the US Navy, a branch I didn't know existed, and had no idea of how the Officers and Enlisted interacted.  It was unlike anything I had experienced up to this point in my career.   Listed t...

Send us Fan Mail The quote Ralph Fitts: "you can fix anything but bad neighbors."  So very true indeed, as on more than one occasion have found myself having to deal with bad neighbors.  Yes, there are indeed folks out there who don't give a damn about what or how they do things much less the impact it has on their neighbors.  Loud music, barking dogs, broken down cars and trash in...

Send us Fan Mail All I can say is that when times are hard, and she ain't taking kindly to me, desperate matters required a desperate act.  An act with was both tactical and strategic.   I had a plan, and God was understanding, and I to this day believe He played a hand on the whole timing of things.  What are the odds, that on the day I decided to take up the offer of: "if you're e...

Send us Fan Mail As a young knuckle-head, I made a many mistakes.  And I'd say 100% of the undesirable outcome was on account of me not thinking things through.  Not knowing how to apply critical thinking, use logic, which really equates to me have little wisdom or experience at being an adult.  In other words, me unaware of "cause and effect."  The laws of unintended consequences. ...

Send us Fan Mail Being a young new Sailor, and being from Butler GA meant I had to experience a learning curve often a common course of a naïve country boy.  As we were raised to believe most folks are good and honest, and stealing was equal to having sex with your sister,.....you just don't do that. Well, I learned a great deal those first few months in the Navy attending school at Naval Air...

Send us Fan Mail I miss many things.  I miss being young, carefree, and the unaware feeling of not knowing and not caring about stuff that didn't matter.  The days of utter freedom of just being a boy, a kid, and learning by the school of hard knocks.  Playgrounds, and backyards.  Hours upon hours of just me and my BB Gun in the woods.    I recall watching a movie about this man traveling acr...

Send us Fan Mail Again, me being young and stupid is indeed a major part of my past.  I've done a many of things I regret, and saying sorry doesn't begin to repair the damage.  I can't explain what it feels like to sew oats if you will, but the hormones of a young fella are powerful, and can cause one to lose all good sense.  Yes sir, I went off and did the unthinkable and cause pai...

Send us Fan Mail Being young and stupid presents a many of opportunities to get beat up, arrested, and worse, killed.  I have come to the conclusion I am indeed one of the luckiest people alive on this planet.  In retrospect (20/20), I had all the opportunities to fail big-time.  So, what could possibly go wrong at 1;00 AM in a Krystle's Restaurant on the Southside of Macon GA off Hwy 41 afte...

Send us Fan Mail Summer time brought many things to a young boy growing up in the South in the 1970's.  Getting the heck out of school was indeed at the top, but the flipside was me having to get up earlier in the mornings to go with Daddy to work at the Grocery store.  Truth be told, summer time meant hard work and long hours.  But summer time also meant 4H Camp.  And to attend 4H Camp at Ro...

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Send us Fan Mail A simple "in-and-out" trip to the Dentist.  What could possibly go wrong?   Tune in to this episode to hear me tell it. I'm guessing today with all the modern medical technology that's evolved, it would be darn near impossible to get an x-ray image backwards, whereby setting the stage for a Dentist to attempt to yank-out the wrong tooth.  Well, back in 1981, th...

Send us Fan Mail In 1976 the small town of Butler Georgia was overrun with Blackbirds, and when I say overrun, I mean millions of them critters.  It didn't take long before the local town folk done had enough of the noise and bird crap, thus someone on the City Council decided to purchase all the shotguns shells in the surrounding area, and give them away to anyone who came to town with a sho...

Send us Fan Mail My years in the US Navy offered a many of great experiences and memories.  Memories to last a lifetime (don't even know what that means), but we tend to say that a lot.  Some of my memories need go no further than the distance between my ears,  while others need be told and relived from time to time.  Such stories that begin with: "this is a no-shitter." Like the ti...